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| # MetFuse Dataset |
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| MetFuse is a dataset for studying the interaction and fusion of metonymy and metaphor in natural language. It is introduced in the paper MetFuse: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphor, published in Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026). |
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| ## Dataset Details |
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| ### Dataset Description |
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| MetFuse contains 1,000 meaning-aligned quadruplets, with each instance consisting of: |
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| 1. a literal sentence, |
| 2. a metonymic variant, |
| 3. a metaphoric variant, and |
| 4. a hybrid variant containing both metonymy and metaphor. |
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| The dataset therefore contains 4,000 sentences in total. |
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| Unlike datasets that study metaphor and metonymy independently, MetFuse enables researchers to investigate how these two figurative phenomena interact when they occur within the same expression. |
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| * Language(s) (NLP): English |
| * License: Apache 2.0 |
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| ### Dataset Sources [optional] |
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| - **Repository:** https://github.com/cincynlp/MetFuse |
| - **Paper :** MetFuse: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphor (https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.700/) |
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| ## Dataset Structure |
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| MetFuse contains 1,000 instances, corresponding to 4,000 sentences. |
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| Each instance contains four meaning-aligned sentence variants: |
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| * Literal: The original literal sentence. |
| * Metonymy: A variant containing a metonymic noun or noun phrase. |
| * Metaphor: A variant containing a verbal metaphor. |
| * Hybrid: A variant containing both the metonymic expression and verbal metaphor. |
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| Additional fields identify information used during the construction of the figurative variants, including the target noun, target verb, metaphorical paraphrase, and metonymy category. |
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| The dataset contains no predefined train, validation, or test split. |
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| ### Source Data |
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| The initial literal sentences were extracted from Wikipedia. |
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| ## Citation- |
| If you use this dataset, please cite: |
| ``` |
| @inproceedings{ghosh-jiang-2026-metfuse,\ |
| title = "{M}et{F}use: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphor",\ |
| author = "Ghosh, Saptarshi and Jiang, Tianyu",\ |
| editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David",\ |
| booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",\ |
| month = jul,\ |
| year = "2026",\ |
| address = "San Diego, California, United States",\ |
| publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",\ |
| url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.700/",\ |
| doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.700",\ |
| pages = "15337--15350",\ |
| ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"\ |
| } |
| ``` |
